Part 1 A
On September 27 and 28, 1938, Mr. Schaeffer, 41, was interviewed on EASTCHESTER BAY, (On Long Island Sound, vicinity Polham Bay Park), about his experience during Great Depression.
He was born in East Bronx 1897 he lived for almost all his life in same place and now for 7 year in Eastchester Bay. His is married and has a son aged 11. With dates Plumber by trade until he moved to Eastchester Bay; now owns small sailboat which is rented out during the summer and indicated that he does odd jobs around neighboring boathouses and an occasional plumbing job.

Willian B

Part 1 B
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This picture shows a great example of Great Depression, because in that era was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in some countries as early as 1928era and it was affecting United State. So in this picture show people not working, sitting around doing nothing and they look sad.

Willian B






On December 7, 1997, Tina Spencer interviewed Jay Spencer about his experience during the Great Depression. Jay Spencer, 87, was born in Dublin, Old Mexico in 1910. He moved a few times firs to Poncho Villa, then to Lost Creek. When he got old enough to work, he made a dollar a day which was a lot of money back then. He got married and showed his wife a silver dollar but when he did he dropped it through a crack in the porch. Things were so bad that they tore up the porch just to get the money. He says there was one telephone in town, two or three people had cars, other people had horses and buggies and wagons as a way of transportation, other wise you had to walk. Jay went to four years of high school and the begining of year for college for four years. Jay worked very hard to support his family.

-Leanne Kotton

  1. Who is being interviewed?

Albert Beaujon

  1. What is his/her position?

He works in Thomaston making knives.

  1. What is his/her race? Gender? Age?

He is Ameican/Male/75

  1. Where is this interview taking place?

75 Park Street in Thomaston

  1. What is the date of the interview?

It is in 1938

  1. Who is the interviewer?

The interviewer is not given

-Amanda

This interview is about Albert Beaujon. It explains how people want him to quit his job because he is 75. He talks about how if he quits his job he will get only seven dollars a week and that can't support him and his wife. It also explains about another guy named Mike McDonald who says he doesn’t even know what meat tastes like because he doesn’t even have money to afford it.


mann.jpg This is a picture of as man that is sitting on his porch and he is very unhappy.

slave_house.jpg This was a double house it ws considered nice back in the 1930s.



african_americans.jpg This is a picture of African Americans sitting at their slave cabin.

- Leanne

Image, Source: intermediary roll film
Image, Source: intermediary roll film

They called this the Negro grocery store. It's in Sylvania, Gerogia.

Image, Source: intermediary roll film
Image, Source: intermediary roll film

These are people chopping cotton on rented land.

Image, Source: intermediary roll film
Image, Source: intermediary roll film

The hands of a negro girl washing clothes on a farm.

-Amanda